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Mendocino County Today: October 26, 2012

IT'S BEEN A TOUGH WEEK for Mendo law enforcement, men and women doing an impossible job at an impossible juncture of our ever more chaotic history. Several years ago a Fort Bragg friend of mine,…

Mendocino County Today: October 25, 2012

    CHEERLEADER BAKESALE! Anderson Valley’s Varsity Youth Cheerleaders are holding a Big Bakesale on Lemons’ Market Porch this Saturday to raise money for cheerleading uniforms for new girls who have signed up for basketball…

Letters To The Editor

DEAR DA DAVE Editor, The “factual” part of DA Eyster’s Bassler Report left out a lot of facts regarding Mendocino County’s negligent role in these tragedies. Supervisor Hamburg’s letter pointed out some of the missing…

Mendocino County Today: October 24, 2012

MUCH AS I ADMIRE Giants pitcher Ryan Vogelsong, his post-game spiel after beating the Cardinals about how God had taken a personal interest in him and the National League playoffs, reminded me that it was…

Betcha Didn’t Know

That our very own Jim Young of the Anderson Valley Health Center is, as most of you know, basketball coach at Mendocino High School. What most of you probably don't know, but could easily assume…

Off The Record

ELIZABETH GOLDSTEIN of the State Parks Foundation called Tuesday morning. She wasn't happy, and Franklin Graham, who has been writing and writing well about the ongoing State Parks crisis, may not be happy that I…

Valley People

LEMONS MARKET, PHILO, was burglarized early Tuesday morning, very early Tuesday morning as Deputy Walker, instantly on the case, places the meticulous burglar in the store at about 3am. It's not known what if anything…

Mendocino County Today: October 23, 2012

  ============================================= NORBURY FOUND GUILTY OF FIRST-DEGREE MURDER by Tiffany Revelle Billy M. Norbury was declared guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of Jamal Andrews by a jury in Mendocino County Superior Court Monday.…

Mendocino County Today: October 22, 2012

THE GATHERING STORM at Howard Memorial Hospital in Willits, by Ace Barash, MD We in Mendocino County witness a black cloud blowing over the medical care horizon in our own community. The Northern California Network…

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